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The outstanding features of this book are that it directly confronts the challenge posed by G.E.M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy of how moral philosophy can be done, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory in ethics, and it shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion by grounding it in, and applying it to, contemporary moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. No other book currently available covers this ground. The book is aimed primarily at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in philosophy, but it should be accessible to anyone with an interest in practical ethics or the philosophy of Wittgenstein

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense. Featuring a substantial new afterword by Neiman that raises provocative questions about Hannah Arendt's take on Adolf Eichmann and the rationale behind the Hiroshima bombing, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and thought-provoking meditation on good and evil, life and death, and suffering and sense

Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.

1. What Someone May Have Whispered in Elisabeth's Ear -- 2. Whichcote and the Cambridge Platonists on Human Nature: An Interpretation and Defense -- 3. Spinoza's Deification of Existence -- 4. Leibniz on Spinoza's Political Philosophy -- 5. Motion in Leibniz's Middle Years: A Compatibilist Approach -- 6. Leibniz's Ontology of Relations: A Last Word? -- 7. Leibniz and Monadic Domination -- 8. Toland, Leibniz, and Active Matter -- 9. Newton's Ontology of Omnipresence and Infinite Space" -- 10. Epistemological Commitment in Hume's Treatise -- 11. Review Essay: Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms / by Helen Hattab. Descartes's Changing Mind / by Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire.

Cover; A DARK HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Matters; 1 Fissures in the History of Modern Philosophy; Prelude: On Anteriority; 2 Spinoza's Abysmal Rationalism; Intermezzo: On the Putative History of German Idealism; 3 Unruly Greek Schelling; Coda: Nietz sche as Crux; Bibliography; Index

Contents/Table des matières -- African 'Philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges -- African Philosophy: A brief personal history and current debate -- African philosophy in context: A reply to Hountondji's 'Que Peut la Philosophie' -- Myths, symbols and other life-worlds: The limits of empiricism -- The philosophical significance of Bantu nomenclature: A shot at contemporary African philosophy -- The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the Akans -- Alexis Kagame and Afican socio-linguistics -- Old Gods, new worlds: Some recent work in the philosophy of African traditional religion -- The idea of art in African thought -- Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world -- African philosophy: Its proto-history and future history -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

The starry heavens and the moral law /Paul Guyer --"A priori" /Philip Kitcher --Kant on the perception of space [and time] /Gary Hatfield --Kant's philosophy of mathematics /Lisa Shabel --Kant on a priori concepts: The metaphysical deduction of the categories /Béatrice Longuenesse --Kant's philosophy of the cognitive mind /Patricia Kitcher --Kant's proofs of substance and causation /Arthur Melnick --Kant and transcendental arguments /Ralph C.S. Walker --The critique of metaphysics: The structure and fate of Kant's dialectic /Karl Ameriks --Philosophy of natural science /Michael Friedman --The supreme principle of morality /Allen W. Wood --Kant on freedom of the will /Henry E. Allison --Mine and thine? The Kantian state /Robert B. Pippin --Kant on sex and marriage right /Jane Kneller --Kant's theory of peace /Pauline Kleingeld --Kant's conception of virtue /Lara Denis --Kant's ambitions in the third Critique /Paul Guyer --Moral faith and the highest good /Frederick C. Beiser --Kant's critical philosophy and its reception, the first five years (1781-1786) /Manfred Kuehn.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Philosophy as Quine Found It -- 2 Convention, Analyticity, and Holism -- 3 The Indeterminacy of Translation -- 4 Naturalized Epistemology and The Roots of Reference -- 5 Ontology I: Truth, Physical Objects, and the Language of Science -- 6 Ontology II: Extensionality and Abstract Objects -- 7 Science, Philosophy, and Empiricism -- Notes -- References -- Index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism""; ""2. The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process""; ""3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy""; ""4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy""; ""5. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems""; ""6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They?""